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…The last Stand By Cody Nichols On the morning of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and the 7th Cavalry charged into battle against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians. Custer's orders were to wait for reinforcements…

…In Mukherjee’s story “The Tenant”, Maya is an Indian woman who immigrates to the United States at the age of nineteen. She only remembers a little of her childhood, but what happens to her grandmother and her great-aunt still has impact on her. She…

…Pocahontas was an Indian princess, the daughter of Powhatan who was the chief of an Indian tribe in Virginia. Powhatan had many wives and twenty- seven children, one being Pocahontas. She was born in the 1950s and she was named Matoaka though she…

…and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay (now Mumbai), with little success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in South Africa retained him as legal adviser in its office in Durban. Arriving in Durban, Gandhi found himself treated as a member…

…Through the eyes of the narrator, John Dunbar, we experience the majesty and magnitude of the American frontier, and the complexity of the relationship between the ‘whiteman' and the ‘Indian'. When John Dunbar met the Indians, he was scared because…

…Advantages brought to India during rule from the British, were brought by the East India Company, which were run my Indian princes that were protected by the British. The East India Company established many things for India including telegraph, railroad…

…by establishing a population that spoke the same language as their rulers, the British decision in the 1830s to educate Indians in a Western fashion, with English as the language of instruction, was the beginning of a chain of events, including a rise in Indian…

…The goals of Tenskwatawa were to unite all the Indians into an intertribal confederacy under his leadership, stop the American land encroachment and ensure Indian survival. Tenskwatawa preached and demanded sobriety, monogamy, an end to witchcraft…

…observations to physical description of the Indians. Columbus also saw native life as a primitive in culture, because they lacked clothes and an established religion that he was accustomed to. His first encounters with the Indian population were peaceful, as he…

…Native Americans When Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, he thought he had reached the continent of Asia and had landed in India. He called the people he found in the new land ³Indians.² The ancestors of the American Indians…